Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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New features

    E-book viewer: When exporting highlights as plain text include titles from chapters at all levels not just the first level
    Edit book: Reports: Show the number of words per file in the Files section of the report
    Windows builds: sign DLLs in addition to EXEs to make Microsoft's new "Smart App Control" tool happy
    Sending by email: When adding comments also add series
    Nook driver: Put files in NOOK/Books instead of NOOK/My Files on recent nook devices so they are all listed in one place in the NOOK UI

    Closes tickets: 1990730
    calibredb list: Allow using a template as one of the returned fields
    Tag browser: Add context menu action to turn on/off sub-categorization for a category

Bug fixes

    Merging books: Fix title sort not being updated when the title is updated

    Closes tickets: 1996802
    Content server viewer: Fix incorrect sorting of highlights in the same paragraph
    Content server viewer: When exporting highlights as text include chapter titles
    Improve rendering of the separator handle dots introduced in the previous release
    Edit book: Fix regression in previous release causing applying any container update marking all open image editors as modified
    Fix a regression in the previous release that caused copying book details to clipboard to use unix line endings on windows

Improved news sources

    Bloomberg
    The Globe and Mail
    Spectator Magazine
    The New York Times
    The Hindu
    MIT Technology Review

https://calibre-ebook.com

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Thorium Reader is the EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10, MacOS and Linux.

This EDRLab application is in constant development and aims at becoming a reference for accessing EPUB 3 publications in reflow or fixed layout format, visual narratives (DiViNa), audiobooks and even LCP protected PDF documents.

Huge efforts are made to get Thorium Reader highly accessible for visually impaired and dyslexic people.

This application is free, with no ads and no leaks of private data.

Changelog

    Updated translations: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Spanish, Swedish
    Now with Electron 21 (more recent Chromium web browser engine)
    Feature: show accessibility metadata in publication info dialog
    Fix: MathML support via MathJax, screen reader interaction (accessibility)
    Feature: navigation history, back / forward buttons with keyboard shortcuts
    Fix: TTS and Media Overlays playback options were reset to default values in GUI but not in backend
    Fix: EPUB FXL Fixed-Layout pre-paginated publications can now render with single centered pages (override from authored spread rules, when aspect ratio is portrait instead of landscape)
    Feature: EPUB FXL Fixed-Layout zoom now with keyboard shorcuts (increase, decrease and reset)
    Fix: EPUB FXL and reflowable, support for pagebreak and pagelist edge cases, improved "goto page" navigation
    Fix: support for self-closing body HTML tag in document parser
    Fix: keyboard focus returns to popup menu callsite after cancel-closing publication delete modal dialog (improves usability and accessibility with screen readers)
    Fix: improved popup modal dialog GUI, better default enter key behaviour and form submission behaviour
    Fix: improved CSS styling in reader menu, removed non-implemented annotation menu (future feature)
    Fix: OPDS HTTP basic authentication now handles 302 "found" redirection for GET requests
    Fix: OPDS indirect acquisitions can have child subtype, now display EPUB/PDF and LCP info in download buttons (after generic authenticated borrow action)
    Feature: OPDS edit feed title and url
    Fix: tag name with special characters now supported
    Fix: DAISY v2.02 HTML NCC metadata parsing, multimedia type full text audio is default
    Feature: OPDS HTTP digest authentication scheme, supports Calibre content server
    Fix: multilingual metadata parsing (title, author, etc.), RTL for Hebrew, Arabic, etc. now displayed correctly
    Fix: URL protocol/scheme handlers thorium:// and opds:// work on Mac Linux and Windows
    Fix: MacOS 'window' menu in top-level instead of submenu
    Fix: accessible screen reader label for secondary navigation landmark in bookshelf is just "menu" to avoid duplication of announcement
    Fix: added application keywords for Linux integration
    Fix: clearer error reporting when opening a file with unsupported extension (derived from HTTP content-type or obtained from filesystem)
    Fix: Mac and Linux application icons
    Fix: cancelling one download only now works
    Fix: publication info, list of authors now complete
    Fix: OPDS, support for DAISY application/zip mimetype

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https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/

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Asciidoc FX is a book / document editor to build PDF, Epub, Mobi and HTML books, documents and slides.

Freeware

Changelog

    Java 19 Virtual Threads
    Sign Windows installers
    Install4J 10 Upgrade
    Spring Boot 3, and AsciidoctorJ version upgrade

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http://www.asciidocfx.com/

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New features

    Content server: Add support for searching the full text of books. Simply click the FTS link on the search page to start a full text search.
    Content server: When using user accounts, the homepage now shows recently read books from any device not just the current device

    Closes tickets: 1998557
    Kobo driver: Bump the max supported firmware version

    Closes tickets: 1999685
    Conversion: New Output profile for the Kindle Scribe

    Closes tickets: 1998780
    Check library: Allow ignoring folder names as well as files names

    Closes tickets: 1998705

Bug fixes

    Edit book: Fix various formatting operations not inserting the tags in the correct place in the presence of non-BMP characters

    Closes tickets: 1999349
    Edit book: Use s instead of strike for strikethrough
    Edit book: Fix export saved search to search panel not preserving the wrap checkbox state

    Closes tickets: 1998899
    Content server: Redirect the index page to always have trailing slash when using URL prefixes

    Closes tickets: 1998767
    Book list: Workaround for change in Qt 6 behavior where clicking on an already selected row does not deselect other rows
    Windows: Fix a regression in calibre 6 causing Open With to not extract icons from EXE files

    Closes tickets: 1998165

New news sources

    Fokus by Henrik Holm
    Press Information Bureau by unkn0wn
    Himal Southasian by unkn0wn
    Indian Express Print Edition by unkn0wn

Improved news sources

    Indian Express
    Financial Times
    TIME Magazine
    Hindu Business Line Print Edition
    Arts and Letters Daily
    Frontline
    Sportstar
    New Yorker

https://calibre-ebook.com

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A fresh and stylish ebook reader that allows you to customize all aspects of your collection and make the entire reading experience more immersive.

License: AGPL

Changelog

We are pleased to announce the release of our latest stable version. Thanks for all the support we got along the way. After a year of iterative development, It's safe to say that this version is stable enough and ready to be pushed to the public.

Please let us know if you have any feedback or questions.
A detailed changelog can be found on our website: https://koodo.960960.xyz/en/log

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https://github.com/troyeguo/koodo-reader

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IceCream Ebook Reader is the answer to your ebook management prayers. If you have lots of ebooks in EPUB, MOBI, FB2, CBZ, CBR and PDF formats piled up on your hard drive, feel free to use this program to store, manage and read them in a fuss-free way. The program allows you to easily add the books to the library, view them in a form of a chart or book shelf with detailed information about the file, filter books by different categories for easy search, and read them on your PC.

Freemium

Changelog

    new Completely new user interface
    new New notes engine
    new New PDF rendering engine
    new Text to speech feature added
    new Several cool themes
    new Better book search
    new Hotkeys added
    update HiDPI better support
    new Change book covers
    update Lots of UX improvements

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http://icecreamapps.com/Ebook-Reader/

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Whats new:>>

    update Text to speech possible crash fix
    update Text to speech pitch bug fix
    update Possible crash on some EPUB books fix
    update Installer minor fix

http://icecreamapps.com/Ebook-Reader/

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New features

    E-book viewer: Read aloud: On Windows switch to using the new Microsoft speech subsystem with access to more voices

    Note that this means that old voice, speed and audio devices setting will not be used so a reconfiguration might be needed.
    calibre:// URL scheme: allow specifying a Virtual library for show_book URLs

    Closes tickets: 2003712
    Add by ISBN: Allow adding using identifiers other than ISBN as well

    Closes tickets: 2003227
    Update bundled Qt to 6.4 this means calibre on macOS is now only supported on Big Sur and newer
    Spell check dialog: Allow up and down arrow keys to work regardless of focus
    Allow multiple Template tester dialogs

    Closes tickets: 2002257

Bug fixes

    Windows MTP device driver: Ignore failure to enumerate objects inside non-root folders

    There are apparently a lot of devices out there that fail in this way. So rather than aborting the scan simply ignore the folder.
    Book list: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke dragging to select multiple books
    Content server viewer: Fix reload book not actually reloading until the browser is also refreshed

    Closes tickets: 2004197
    E-book viewer: Fix occasional false warning about highlight being overwritten

    Closes tickets: 2003916
    E-book viewer: Fix detection of selected highlights when all text is selected

    Closes tickets: 2003908
    Fix an error when embedding metadata into a large number of books

    Closes tickets: 2003729
    When updating metadata in EPUB 2 files and no language is specified, do not remove the <dc:language> tag as this causes epubcheck to complain. Instead set the language to "und"

    Closes tickets: 2004522
    Wireless device driver: Remove the timeout for initial connection

    Closes tickets: 2004083
    Use an icon rather than a color to report errors in fields and the search box

    Closes tickets: 2003652
    Conversion dialog: Regex builder: Workaround bug in Qt that prevented searching for non breaking spaces in the wizard used to test search expressions
    Spell check dialog: move down after correcting word, not up

    Closes tickets: 2002864
    Get books: Fix Mobileread store plugin not working

    Closes tickets: 2002534

New news sources

    Boston Globe Print Edition by unkn0wn
    Observer Reach Foundation by unkn0wn

Improved news sources

    Jerusalem Post
    LiveMint
    The Seattle Times
    India Today
    Outlook Magazine
    Live Mint
    Irish Independent
    Irish Times

https://calibre-ebook.com

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New features

    Content server: E-book viewer: Long tapping on an image now causes it to be displayed in an internal popup rather than a new window as some browsers block the creation of new windows

Bug fixes

    E-book viewer: Fix some adjacent highlights with nothing in between them not being displayed.
    Content server: Workaround for Safari regression causing bookmarks to disappear on reload

    Closes tickets: 2006726
    E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the Read aloud controls to not reappear when Read aloud is canceled and restarted

    Closes tickets: 2007039
    E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused an error when using Read aloud on a chapter with no text, such as the cover page

    Closes tickets: 2006062
    E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused a spurious error on Windows when reading out selected text
    Fix a regression in calibre 5.0 that broke sorting the device view by title if one of the books has an empty title

    Closes tickets: 2007165
    Edit book: Spell Check dialog: Fix second word not getting selected when after first word is fixed
    Improve hover highlight color in tree views

    Closes tickets: 2004621

New news sources

    The Economist Espresso by unkn0wn
    Science X by unkn0wn
    Horizons by unkn0wn
    Deccan Herald by unkn0wn
    The Monthly by unkn0wn

Improved news sources

    CNN
    Bloomberg

https://calibre-ebook.com

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A fresh and stylish ebook reader that allows you to customize all aspects of your collection and make the entire reading experience more immersive.

License: AGPL

Changelog

    New:

    Switch to new render engine, please help us improve it by reporting bugs in issues section
    Add format support to cb7, azw and mhtml
    Add cover support to mobi, azw3, azw and comics
    Add sliding animation to epub
    Add language support to Arabic and turkish
    Remove Google Analytics

    Fix:

    Footnote display issue
    Book sorting issue
    Heart icon not showing in cover mode
    Page number and Chapter number not changing in progress panel
    Comic book render issue
    Bing translation not working
    Some issue related to epub.js

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https://github.com/troyeguo/koodo-reader

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New features

    Edit metadata: When setting a cover from comic files allow choosing which page to use as the cover

    Closes tickets: 2007765
    Allow display of columns built from other columns as comments in Book details

    Closes tickets: 2009304
    Comments editor: Add a shortcut for "Paste and match style" (Ctrl+Shift+v)

Bug fixes

    macOS: ToC Editor: Fix mouse becoming unusable when trying to create a new entry

    Closes tickets: 2004639
    When computing title sorts strip leading and trailing quotes, not just leading quotes
    Content server viewer: Fix searching only showing results from the current chapter onwards

    Closes tickets: 2009268
    Check book: Fix some incorrect line numbers reported in a few CSS error messages

    Closes tickets: 2009735

Improved news sources

    Strange Horizons
    The Saturday Paper
    New Scientist
    The Mainichi
    DR Nyheder
    New York Magazine
    Bloomberg
    Deccan Herald

https://calibre-ebook.com

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IceCream Ebook Reader is the answer to your ebook management prayers. If you have lots of ebooks in EPUB, MOBI, FB2, CBZ, CBR and PDF formats piled up on your hard drive, feel free to use this program to store, manage and read them in a fuss-free way. The program allows you to easily add the books to the library, view them in a form of a chart or book shelf with detailed information about the file, filter books by different categories for easy search, and read them on your PC.

Freemium

Changelog

    Activation fix

6.26

    New:
    Book import optimisation
    Updates:
    Multiple fixes for reading MOBI and FB2 formats
    Fixed possible crashes for PDF files
    Fix for books with SVG asynchronous elements
    Correct page number detection fixes

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http://icecreamapps.com/Ebook-Reader/

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Whats new:>>

Bug fixes

    Closes tickets: 2009735
    Fix regression in 6.14.0 that caused some generated resources to be excluded from the calibre source bundle
    Fix regression in 6.14.0 that broke using paths with single quotes in them for the calibre library

    Closes tickets: 2011586

    Fix ToC Editor on macOS in 6.14.0 not working inside the Edit book tool only

https://calibre-ebook.com

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Sigil is an advanced ebook editor that provides users with comprehensive options and configuration settings. It offers support for HTML, XHTML, TXT, image and video files, and it comes wrapped in a user-friendly interface that puts emphasis on simplicity. It is capable of generating ePub files.

License: GPLv3

Changelog

    Bug Fixes:

    fix Checkpointing to work with dulwich version 0.20.46+
    fix css value parsing when !important is used
    EmbeddedPython fixes to work with Python 3.11 and later (thank you sharkcz)
    leave cursor position unchanged if nothing found when search groups of files
    make all Numeric items in Reports align right
    add support for thousands separator to Reports
    allow blank dc:language values to prevent crashing (as Sigil-1.9.10 did)
    allow unknown language codes to pass through MetaEditor
    MetaEditor under epub2, allow custom opf scheme values
    prevent duplicate spaces when reformatting CSS in import, charset and namespace
    better prevent random OPF attribute order changes to simplify Checkpoint diffs
    fixed file menu Print Preview for xhtml and image tabs
    prevent plugins from crashing Sigil by deleting last xhtml file in epub
    fix issue where images/css could not be properly added in an epub3 with no css files

    New Features:

    allow user to edit Checkpoint descriptions for clarity via Checkpoint menu
    add ability to show the Checkpoint Change Log via Checkpoint menu
    update to Hunspell 1.7.2 (released in December 2022) for spellchecking
    update to latest zlib-1.2.13 for latest security fixes
    move completely away from ever using OS system tmp folder for storing Sigil wip files. Instead create a new "workspace" folder inside Sigil Preferences folder
    added ability to Print Preview and Print contents of Sigil's Preview window

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https://github.com/user-none/Sigil

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OpenAudible is an cross-platform Audible audiobook manager. With OpenAudible you can download, view, convert to MP3, and manage all your audible.com content. Best of all you can view all your Audible books in one location and automatically organize your books as an HTML library.

Shareware

Changelog

    New Login method that doesn't require a built-in web browser
    Manage multiple libraries
    Universal binary for Mac OS (optimized for M1 and Intel machines)
    Book table is customizable -- add or remove columns to display and change size and order with drag and drop
    Improved sorting of books -- now sorts by series name and series number when searching by author or genre
    Export all book information to excel, including images and links to files
    Added Read Status where you can set the value to Finished, Unread, Did not Finish, want to read, or any other string.
    Improved metadata tags for m4b files
    Improved importing of files
    Improved error messages
    Fixed bug where some files could not be converted
    New documentation with table of contents
    Improved book status to show warnings or errors about a book
    Reduced file size substantially (by removing Chromium support, which is no longer needed)

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https://openaudible.org/